breadseller
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bread + seller. Compare the Middle English surname Bredseller.
Noun[edit]
breadseller (plural breadsellers)
- A seller of bread.
- 1853 September, “Narrative of Foreign Events”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Household Narrative of Current Events, (for the Year 1853,) Being a Monthly Supplement to Household Words, volume IV, London: Office, […], page 213:
- At Rome the inhabitants of the Trastevere quarter have been expressing their indignation in their usual manner; a retail breadseller having fallen victim to their knives in a dispute about the relative size and price of his loaves.
- 1985, Russell P. Spittler, “The Testament of Job”, in Marinus de Jonge, editor, Outside the Old Testament (Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish & Christian World, 200 BC to AD 200; 4), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 239:
- The breadseller said, “Pay money, and you can have some.”
- 2006, Paulo Lins, translated by Alison Entrekin, City of God, Black Cat, →ISBN, page 20:
- It was the breadsellers who woke the neighbourhood, shouting: ‘Bread for sale, bread for sale!’ Paulo Cachaça and Breadman Lolo, the only adult breadsellers, spent the mornings crying their wares: […]